SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin

Reclaim Wisconsin Bus Tour Dates

SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:07:34 +0000

The Wisconsin State AFL-CIO and community partners are fueling up The Recall Express and hitting the road to talk with Wisconsinites across the state about the local effect of Gov. Walker’s disastrous agenda.

The “Reclaim Wisconsin Tour” will discuss the impact of Gov. Walker’s policies on working people including the loss of family-sustaining jobs, the loss of employment protections and benefits, the continual transfer of wealth to Wisconsin’s 1% and the hammering of quality public services and education. The Tour will be making stops in Milwaukee, La Crosse, Wausau, Eau Claire, Green Bay, Racine and Madison (see schedule below for dates).

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: The “Reclaim Wisconsin” Tour will culminate with statewide candlelight vigils on March 9 and a “Reclaim Wisconsin March” in Madison on Saturday, March 10. These events will mark the one year anniversary of when Gov. Walker and Senate Republicans rammed through the collective bargaining bill illegally in the dead of night.

Reclaim Wisconsin Tour Schedule:

Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 - Wausau, Wausau Labor Temple – 318 S. 3rd Street, Wausau, WI 5:30pm
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012 - Eau Claire Phoenix Park Pavilion - Riverfront Terrace – Eau Claire, WI 5:30pm
Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 - Kaukauna UA Local 400 – 2700 Northridge Drive, Kaukauna, WI 5:30pm
Monday, March 5, 2012 - Racine Monument Square – Main & 5th Street, Racine, WI 5:30pm
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - Milwaukee Serb Hall – 5101 West Oklahoma Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 7:00pm
Friday, March 9, 2012 - Madison Capitol – Candlelight Vigil 6:00pm
Saturday, March 10, 2012 - Madison Capitol – Pre Program 1:00pm
Saturday, March 10, 2012 – Madison Capitol “Reclaim Wisconsin March at the Capitol” – Rally 2:00pm

99% Summit

SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:31:57 +0000

You and fellow leaders and activists are invited to attend the 99% Summit!

Register here – http://tinyurl.com/77b7q7b

As we continue to build our movement and the struggle here in Wisconsin, we need to develop leaders in the fight for social & economic justice.

We need skilled, educated, empowered leaders from the 99% to organize in their communities, neighborhoods, and workplaces. We need activists who understand themselves as leaders in a movement of the 99% to win economic fairness and social justice.

That is why Wisconsin Jobs Now (WJN) is hosting the “99% Summit,” a day of skills training, political education, and leadership development for the people who are powering the 99% movement here in Wisconsin. Attached you will find an outline of the workshops at the 99% Summit so you know what is happening and can see how awesome this day is going to be. The workshops will be conducted by some of the best organizers in the country, coming in to lead the training, as well as local leaders who are building the movement here in Wisconsin.

WJN is opening up the 99% Summit to all activists so that this leadership development program can strengthen the work of those who are with us in this struggle in Wisconsin and in this movement at large. Consider the 99% Summit a way for you to take a giant step forward with the leadership capacity you need to advance the movement and contribute more to the struggles for social & economic justice.

You as well as other leaders & activists are invited to join us at the 99% Summit on March 3. So please join us, sign up to do so, and pass it along to others. Here’s what you should do:

1. Check out the attached outline of the workshops so that you know what you want to sign up for at the summit.

2. Sign up for the summit, picking your workshop preferences, using the online form right here: http://tinyurl.com/77b7q7b

3. Spread this around to other leaders and key activists from your social network via email.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at rickman.peter@gmail.com or 920.284.4710.

We’ll see you on the frontlines of the struggle, in the community centers and unions halls of our movement, out in the neighborhoods, and hopefully, at the 99% Summit on March 3!

Hands Off BadgerCare! Rally

SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:50:38 +0000

Scott “1%” Walker and the head of the Department of Health Services, Dennis Smith, have proposed cutting over half a billion dollars from Medicaid and Badgercare. These cuts would result in the state to denying 64,000 people – most of them children – from getting the healthcare they need. And why? To line the pockets of the wealthiest 1%.

Kicking people off of BadgerCare to make the rich richer!?!

Enough is Enough.

Walker and Smith are working overtime to dismantle Wisconsin’s award-winning and cost efficient healthcare system. We cannot let this travesty happen. Attend a kickoff rally to support restoring funding to BadgerCare:

WHAT: Hands Off BadgerCare! Kickoff Rally
WHEN: Thursday, February 16, 2012 — 11 AM rally
WHERE: Rally at 12th & Kilbourn, SEIU members meet-up at 9:30 AM at HCWI office (260 E. Highland Ave, Milwaukee.)

RSVP here: http://action.wisconsinjobsnow.org/page/signup/badgercare-rally

Winning Wisconsin in 2012: Finding Our Champion.

SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:24:51 +0000

When we started the Recall Walker campaign, our goal was to restore fairness and balance to our state. We didn’t need another politician; we need a champion, a tireless advocate who will stand up for our rights and livelihoods.

It wasn’t enough to find someone who would commit to restoring collective bargaining, we needed a leader to repair the damage Scott Walker has inflicted on our schools, communities, and state.

Kathleen Falk is the only potential candidate who has pledged not to sign a budget without restoring collective bargaining in 2013, and will fight for the 99% agenda. Kathleen Falk supports vital healthcare programs like BadgerCare, and is a proven leader in expanding innovative programs for the disabled, elderly, and the healthcare workers who provide the care. She understands that our families are hurting, and will ensure that millionaires and corporations pay their fair share. In this economy, we don’t need tax breaks for the wealthy; we need a jobs agenda that will move Wisconsin forward.

She’s running not only to restore these shared Wisconsin values, but also to offer a different style of leadership – one that unites people of different beliefs to solve tough problems.

In Dane County, her vision and skill have helped countless people reenter the workforce and out of poverty. She has pioneered programs that serve new parents and newborns. She implemented an innovative system for home care workers to have a union and ensure a voice on the job, quality care and a system of training. Falk proved that innovation can be fiscally responsible; throughout her 14 years as County Executive, she achieved a balanced budget every year.

As an advocate for social and economic justice, Falk is running because she believes in our movement to take back our state from 1% Walker. Kathleen Falk has been there at every step of our fight, and is proud to stand up with us now to defeat Gov. Walker and overturn his agenda.

Reclaim Wisconsin Tour: Madison

SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:29:59 +0000

The Reclaim Wisconsin Tour is coming to a town near you! See below for an updated schedule of events. The Tour will be criss-crossing the state to discuss the local impacts of Gov. Walker’s policies including the loss of family-sustaining jobs, the loss of collective bargaining rights, the continual transfer of wealth to Wisconsin’s 1% and the hammering of quality public services and education.